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Ten long short stories, including a short novel, by Brian Lumley. Lumley's short fiction has won the British Fantasy Award and is well-regarded, particularly by fans of H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos.

"Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert........."
Also made into a Paramount Pictures movie.
Pictorial dust jacket (Yellow Jacket) over blind stamped red cloth boards. 362pp.
Good: DJ has moderate wear, now in protective poly cover, not price clipped. Boards/spine - light wear to edges. Text block clean. No inscriptions. Binding good.

Comedy snippets from the great early twentieth century fantasist. With illustrations by Frank C. Pope. First edition. Deckle-edged. Original black cloth boards with gilt design.

Special issue containing papers presented at the International Conference on the Wear of Materials, St Louis, Mo, USA, April 1977.

Edited and introduced by Peter Ruber.
Stories that were first published in Weird Tales magazine in the 1920s. In protective poly cover

Stories: The Odd Old Bird by Avram Davison; Kaeti and the Village by Keith Roberts; Instrument of Allah by Robert A. Metzger; Nothing Like a Clean Weapon by Avram Davidson; The Frog Prince that Ate Cranford, New Jersey by Jay Sheckley; Through Time and Space with Ferdinand Feghoot! by Grendel Briarton; The Ones who Turn Invisible by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre; The Tunnel by Carl Jacobi; Knox's 'Nga by Avram Davidson; Message from Hell by Robert Sheckley; The Dimension Weasel by Jefferson Swycaffer; When Jesus come Down the Chimney by Ian Watson; Magician in the Dark by Robert Sampson.

Contents: Whisper Water - Leah Bodine Drake The Living Eyes - Justin Dowling I'll be Back - David Eynon Strange Harvest - Donald Wandrei Morthylla - Clark Ashton Smith A Corner for Lucia - August Derleth A Fog was Blowing (verse) Stanton A Coblentz Between Two Dreams - Felix Marti Ibanez The Vengeance of Kali Mai - Garnett Radcliffe Requiem for a Sinner (verse) Pauline Booker Mandrake - Adam Hull Shirk wife of the Dragonfly - Paul Ernst.

Vol 2 No 4

3 miles to 1 inch
1:200,000 scale
2km to 1 cm
Clear, place name index
Speed cameras with speed limits
15 city and town plans

1st edition thus (1st edition in this format by H & S, 1941). Pictorial dust jacket over red blind stamped cloth boards. 288pp. Includes b/w photo stills from subsequent Hollywood film of the same name. Tells the story of the building of the first trans-continental telegraph line, in the face of incredible hardships and dangers. CONDITION: DJ - good, light wear at edges, not price clipped, in poly cover. Boards/spine VG. Internally - gift inscription on ffep, light tanning to pages, binding very good.

Regular railway-operated steamer services commenced between Weymouth and the Channel Islands following the opening of the railway to the town in 1857, and continued until the demise of Sealink. Originally both the GWR and LSWR served the port amid great rivalry until 1860 when the LSWR withdrew to Southampton, from where the competition continued until the disastrous loss of the Stella in 1899. The GWR service from Weymouth was operated on their behalf by the Weymouth & Channel Islands Steam Packet Company, a financially impoverished concern that the GWR were constantly bailing out. During 1878 the GWR commenced a service to Cherbourg operating it in their own right with their own vessels, unsuccessful, it struggled on for seven years before it ceased, leaving the Channel Island service to the Packet Company. Following the loss of the Brighton in 1887 and the condition of the other two outdated paddle steamers operated by the Packet Company, the GWR decided to take the service over in 1889, providing… Read More

Through illustrations which span four centuries, this text takes another look at the changing face of Weymouth and its surrounding villages from 1790 to 2004.

Historical seafaring in Weymouth waters. Novel set against the background of 18th century swashbuckling in the waters around Weymouth and Portland, Dorset. Ideal holiday read!

Very large reference book, outlining thousands of fantastic fiction books.
Over 4,800 entries from 1989-1997. No illustrations.

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day?
In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.CONDITION: light wear and ageing.

In this provocative new study, Iain McLean argues that the traditional story of the British constitution does not make sense. It purports to be both positive and normative: that is, to describe both how people actually behave and how they ought to behave. In fact, it fails to do either; it is not a correct description and it has no persuasive force. The book goes on to offer a reasoned alternative. The position that still dominates the field of constitutional law is that of parliamentary sovereignty (or supremacy). According to this view, the supreme lawgiver in the United Kingdom is Parliament. Some writers in this tradition go on to insist that Parliament in turn derives its authority from the people, because the people elect Parliament. An obvious problem with this view is that Parliament, to a lawyer, comprises three houses: monarch, Lords, and Commons. The people elect only one of those three houses.

Classic fishing yarns with b/w photographic illustrations.

Classic children's book about the exploration of the Arctic.
Original blue cloth pictorial boards.

Classic World War II French Resistance true story.

Book club edition. Intrigue and passion filled thriller set in South America.